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Taiga (OOIOO album)
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Taiga is the fifth studio album by Japanese experimental rock band OOIOO. It was released on July 4, 2006 by the labels Felicity, Polystar and Shock City. It is an avant-rock and experimental pop album that blends numerous world music influences, particularly African music.
Taiga is the first OOIOO album to feature Ai on drums, while Aya returns on bass after her debut on the band's previous album Kila Kila Kila (2003). The songs "UMA" and "UMO" were remixed on OOIOO's 2007 EP Eye Remix.
The English word "taiga" refers to a subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests, while the Japanese word 大河 means "(great) river". One reviewer described these as "apt descriptions" for OOIOO's "jungle-like music".
Taiga is centred on percussion, with guitar, keyboard and horn bedrocks being flavoured by conga drums, steel pans and xylophone. While the album takes influence from numerous global musical styles, much of the music takes influence from African music, with numerous tracks – particularly "KMS" – drawing from African jazz and "lilting African folk-inspired guitar melodies". "KMS" is flavoured by hand drums, jazz rhythms and guitar riffs. "SAI" is built on a sloping beat, patient organ and flute melodies. "ATS" sees the group explore gamelan and psychedelic rock, while "GRS" is a calypso track with heavy drum rolls. "UMA" is driven by heavy tom-toms and rhythmic chanting. "UJA" uses hand percussion in a manner that has been compared to the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Music critic Sam Mickens highlighted the group's "paradoxically formless pop sensibility; while the music's building blocks are primarily beautiful and often familiar feeling (harmonizing guitar lines, Yoshimi's deft trumpet, singing that's rooted in Japanese folk tradition, etc.), the way in which they are utilized and arranged works more in the vein of ancient trance musics or 20th-century minimalism."
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, Taiga has received an average score of 78, based on nine reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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